Category: Poetry
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Micro Essay: Responding to Alice Fulton’s Dance Script with Electric Ballerina (University of Illinois Press, 1983)
Jolting, like drinking two five-hour energies. You’re seventeen and driving through the night. Cold air feels exhilarating. Icicles form in science and wonder. This cold caffeination transforming you into a wizard. Elemental and strong. If you think too hard, you’re trite. If you think too hard, you’re marvelous. There’s room here for jewelry boxes doubling…
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New Publication: The Bracelet with Hanging Fish Beads
I am excited to announce that my little poem “The Bracelet with Hanging Fish Beads” found a home in The Galway Review! This poem speaks on the moment one becomes aware of their own agency. Find Online, Like, and Comment Here!
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Poem: Walmart Parking Lot Spokane Washington
I wrote this poem after a trip east to Spokane and Missoula in 2021. I often visit Spokane, because my godson lives there. The people and the vistas open me up every time.
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A Poem from 2018
Happy Mother’s Day! During the summer of 2017 I participated in a project where I wrote a sonnet every day for a month. This was a big challenge. I had just graduated from college and was living with my parents for the summer before moving to Indianapolis, Indiana. Though the poems I wrote that month…
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